KDE and GNOME apps

Paul Howarth paul at city-fan.org
Mon Feb 7 17:30:45 UTC 2005


Øyvind Lode wrote:
> This may be a dumb question but I'm not that familiar with the Linux 
> desktop...
> 
> Can I run GNOME apps on KDE and vice versa?
> 
> For instance:
> As I understand it a app called K3b is a cd/dvd burning app for KDE.
> Can I use K3b in GNOME??

Yes, you can. I would normally add a proviso along the lines of 
"providing you have the KDE libraries etc. installed" but yum/rpm/apt 
etc. dependency handling should enforce that, so the short answer is "yes".

Paul.




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